Media coverage 2018/19

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Press go on that to be a great team we have to dominate Europe, like utd. Well to me a manager of the same club for 25 yrs only won it twice I wouldn't call that dominating. In fact with that record most of the top European clubs would have sacked him !! Yet bristish press bang on about their dominance. Ok we haven't won it but unlike utd we don't get the help from refs etc unlike them ....
 
domalino said:
That's one of the crazy things - sportswashing isn't a genuine policy. It's never been reported as an actual strategy of the gulf states by anyone who would know about their policies. It's just guess work trying to find motivation for investing in sport, and it's mad because it's so after the fact. People talk about Sheikh Mohammed sportswashing, when actually he was just a bored 20 something billionaire who bought a horse because he rode them as a kid, it won, and he got addicted to winning.

There was no mention of sportwashing, it was just a billionaire enjoying his plaything.

The word doesn't even seem to have existed until 2015, 30+ years later.

Now I'm not denying the existence of soft power etc. but anyone who follows football can probably tell you that owning manchester city has done nothing but shine a light on the problems of the UAE. 11 years ago football fans only thoughts of the UAE was that footballers went to Dubai on holiday, now most followers of the most popular sport in the world talk about human rights abuses in qatar and the uae. If sportswashing was ever a deliberate tactic, it failed a long time ago.
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McKinsey can't always provide winning strategies...

I agree though - it's either an incredibly poorly thought out policy (increased visibility and odd choice of club for the project) or it's not the policy.

The argument of weaponising the fanbase would only be beneficial if it was the largest, most vocal & influential fanbase. Yet apparently we don't sing or attend games...
 
After an unprecedented treble and a 6-0 ass whooping in FA Cup, it seems like it has been erased from the BBC archive. I have just watched that bitter dipper loving bitch through gritted teeth having to talk about us, but it was only to say about Vinny leaving!!!!! There was more on the comedy Scottish League.
FFS they really don’t like what we are doing with English football do they. CÜNTS.
 
jrb said:
You add Journalists to that as well. They are much worse.

Independent.

The partisan TV pundits are taking over football - but does it matter?
Today’s product takes elements of the short-lived FanZone option with ex-players failing to conceal their emotions


This column has heard about one pundit, an ex-Manchester City player, who is being pressured by the City hierarchy to argue the club’s case more forcefully in the media. And in recent years, City’s lack of media “advocates” has been a long-running bone of contention among the club’s fans, as well as perhaps the sole explanation for Michael Brown’s surprisingly buoyant television career.

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport...ary-lineker-sky-sports-bt-sport-a8918826.html
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Absolutely spot-on and well worth a read.
 
5 live more of the same......fantastic achievement in relation to treble.....but other premier league clubs have sticks to beat City with

Scum.....not a properly treble, because of chumps league
Spuds.....knocked us out of chumps league
Dippers.....in chumps league.

End of article.

Can't see any theme there.

Twats..
 
jrb said:
OK.

Get ready for the next attack. Roughly late Afternoon, onwards, and into the following Day.

Social Media comments from mostly Liverpool and United fans, along with picture’s of an empty parade route, with only 50,000 City fans being there. ;-)
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Whatever the turnout it will be nowhere near as bad as the pathetic 12,000 (GMP's official figure) for their 2011 parade to celebrate winning their 19th title and beating Liverpool's total. It was held on Bank Holiday Monday after work and there emerged side splitting scenes of a dozen or so ragamuffins running after the bus with just a few bemused onlookers on its way to Trafford Town Hall. I watched it on Sky Sports and even their reporter took the piss by saying the crowd was two deep in places.
 
Having a pop at Pep because he refused to answer Harris's question about receiving separate payments.

Sky News. #c**t's. No link.

Martha Kelner, sport correspondent

Sky Views: Pep Guardiola is not immune from criticism
 
paulchapo said:
Martin Samuel.....brilliant.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...y-biggest-best.html?ito=amp_twitter_share-top
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Unsurprisingly, Martin Samuel just says it as it is. There's no agenda with him; he can see through all this bollocks and simply says it as he sees it.

Given the reaction we've seen in the last couple of days, you'd have thought there had never been a "boring", one-sided FA Cup final before where the winner was virtually guaranteed before kick-off. There's been loads of them; the likes of Wilson and Delaney are just choosing to erase these from their memories.

They would also have you believe that we've all but destroyed any semblance of competition in the game. Yet it's only a week since we won the league by a single point, and only two weeks since that was facilitated by the narrowest of margins as we scraped past the league's 9th placed team courtesy of a 70th minute thunderbolt from a 33-year-old centre back who cost us relative peanuts over a decade ago. Just how short are their memories?

Sometimes good teams struggle in games; other times, they make their superiority show. This is nothing new; it's been happening since football first started. Saturday was just one of those days where everything clicked.

And had the likes of Tottenham and Liverpool not been so quick to toss this historic competition off, we could have been facing a much stiffer challenge in the final. If these teams don't care about it, don't then come to us complaining that we've destroyed our opponents 6-0.

We're not the first team to have dominated English football, and we won’t be the last. I can think of two, in particular, who were lauded for doing so. Money clearly has an influence, but it is just as obviously not the only thing that matters.

No one was complaining about our financial muscle when United won the league in 2013, when Chelsea won it in 2015 and 2017, or when Leicester won it in 2016. We had the same owner back then, the same financial might, but other teams comfortably outperformed us. United have spent something like £800m since Ferguson left and look where it's got them. Meanwhile, both they and Liverpool spend more on wages than City do.

The real difference between all these teams is Pep Guardiola – the greatest football coach/manager there has ever been. But he's not going to be around forever. And when he does leave, football's success cycle will likely move on again, just as it always has done.

In the meantime, why can't the nation's hacks just sit back and admire the positive impact this genius is having, not only on Manchester City but on English football as a whole.
 
also this thing about City and broken football is taking too much away from Guardiola.

this squad, most of them in Saturday's XI, have featured Gundogan, Zinchenko, Walker, Danilo, Mahrez, Otamendi and Delph, none of whom are exactly world class superstars but have been made to perform better by the man in charge in a system that elevated everyone's game
 
Dubai Blue said:
Unsurprisingly, Martin Samuel just says it as it is. There's no agenda with him; he can see through all this bollocks and simply says it as he sees it.

Given the reaction we've seen in the last couple of days, you'd have thought there had never been a "boring", one-sided FA Cup final before where the winner was virtually guaranteed before kick-off. There's been loads of them; the likes of Wilson and Delaney are just choosing to erase these from their memories.

They would also have you believe that we've all but destroyed any semblance of competition in the game. Yet it's only a week since we won the league by a single point, and only two weeks since that was facilitated by the narrowest of margins as we scraped past the league's 9th placed team courtesy of a 70th minute thunderbolt from a 33-year-old centre back who cost us relative peanuts over a decade ago. Just how short are their memories?

Sometimes good teams struggle in games; other times, they make their superiority show. This is nothing new; it's been happening since football first started. Saturday was just one of those days where everything clicked.

And had the likes of Tottenham and Liverpool not been so quick to toss this historic competition off, we could have been facing a much stiffer challenge in the final. If these teams don't care about it, don't then come to us complaining that we've destroyed our opponents 6-0.

We're not the first team to have dominated English football, and we won’t be the last. I can think of two, in particular, who were lauded for doing so. Money clearly has an influence, but it is just as obviously not the only thing that matters.

No one was complaining about our financial muscle when United won the league in 2013, when Chelsea won it in 2015 and 2017, or when Leicester won it in 2016. We had the same owner back then, the same financial might, but other teams comfortably outperformed us. United have spent something like £800m since Ferguson left and look where it's got them. Meanwhile, both they and Liverpool spend more on wages than City do.

The real difference between all these teams is Pep Guardiola – the greatest football coach/manager there has ever been. But he's not going to be around forever. And when he does leave, football's success cycle will likely move on again, just as it always has done.

In the meantime, why can't the nation's hacks just sit back and admire the positive impact this genius is having, not only on Manchester City but on English football as a whole.
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Spot on mate. Most of the media and hacks must support Liverpool because although there has been the odd whinge the hatred and vitriol only reached a crescendo when we beat the dippers.
 
This mornings papers one great bit off stuff in the daily mail then you get that twat from the Express saying the trophies were won by cheating and quotes from Brian clough about cheating
 
Ubiquitous said:
I think Pep will end up being hounded out of England by the media. He handled the ambush question poorly yesterday and the media pack will see that as a sign of weakness to eat away at.
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To quote John McEnroe, 'You cannot be serious'. Do you honestly think he handled that disgraceful question badly ? Somethimes people post on here without thinking, I assume that is what you have done.
 
My concern is the media bias just stirs the stupid element Of our support to do something stupid. Press room at Wembley case in point
 
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